Cairo (Egypt): Police have arrested an Egyptian couple for allegedly swapping sex partners with other married couples, security officials said today.

The two - a civil servant and his teacher wife - allegedly solicited other couples over the Internet and invited them to their home, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

The couple allegedly held at least three such sex parties, and Egyptian police are looking for the others who participated, said the officials, who are involved in the investigation.

Sex out of wedlock is illegal in Egypt, where the constitution says Islamic law is the main source of legislation.

Police say the couple posted advertisements and used chat rooms on a popular Arabic pornographic Web site to arrange for interviews with couples before they swapped partners, said one of the officials.

The two allegedly turned down over 40 couples after the interviews because "they didn t find them acceptable," said another official involved in the investigation.

"The interviews were usually held at a coffee shop in downtown Cairo," he said.

Many of the advertisements on the Web site the couple allegedly used contain personal e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.

One Egyptian man whose number was listed on the site condemned the arrests in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.

"They cannot arrest people who are doing these things at will. Nobody is forcing them," said the man, who would only identify himself as Ahmed.

 

Source : PTI